Dev Diary: Easter Event 2020

The upcoming Easter 2020 Event: New specialist, new building, new buffs and more

Dear Settlers,

It's time for crazy rabbids to go hippity-hop across your island, time to open stripy egg loots with a touch of hope while cleansing the island from the Party Crashers' unfortunate influence... yes, it's Easter Event time and we're sure you've been looking forward to welcoming it to your home island!
The already known content will be made available again, along with a brand new Building!

All relevant quest chains will be triggered upon reaching level 17; if your level is below 17, you will receive a quest tasking you to reach level 17. So hurry up, you surely don't want to miss out on all the fun!

Explorer will only bring back event currency if they return BEFORE the Removal Phase starts. In rare cases, explorer might bring back resources when sent before the Removal Phase and returning during the Removal Phase. Please also have in mind that the same behaviour is present for the Start of the Event. Explorer will only bring back Event Currency if sent after Event Start. In rare cases, explorers might bring back resources when directly sent before the Event starts, and returning after the Event started!

During the Event, all players have the chance to gather Stripy Eggs.
Stripy Eggs can be traded. There are several ways to get them:

Explorers:
The explorers sent-out during the Event will be able to find Stripy Eggs on all regular treasure searches.

Event Quest Chain:
Every 5 days, you will get one Easter Quest Chain (with several sub-quests), that will offer Stripy Eggs as a reward.

Quests & Easter adventures:
The Event Quest Chains will offer quests for 2 adventures in which hidden Easter Eggs have to be found.
There are 8 adventures in total, with a maximum of 9 hidden eggs in each.

Guild Quest:
Every day during the event, guilds will get one random guild quest from a total of five.
Completing this quest at an individual level will grant a small amount of Stripy Eggs.
The more guild members that complete their individual quest, the bigger the grand guild reward is at the end of the day.

Adventures:
Almost all Missions and Scenarios will reward Stripy Eggs.

Expeditions:
All Expeditions will provide Stripy Eggs as loot.
There will be no islands with Stripy Eggs as colony yield.

Collectables:
Stripy Eggs will spawn on the home island and can be collected.

Party Crashers:
Every time the Party Crashers' camp is defeated, the corresponding quest will give a small number of Stripy Eggs. You can defeat the camp with your own generals or with the help of your friends, who can use special buffs to defeat them.

Merchant:
There will be packages with Stripy Eggs available for purchase in the in-game merchant.

Achievements:
Some achievements will grant Stripy Eggs as a reward.

Event story:
A special quest chain consisting of several mini-quests that grant Stripy Eggs as a reward.

Mr. Croix Sant's new delight is intended to give a little experience boost and variety to the event itself while providing an interesting story: Mr. Croix Sant and the Easter Bunny's assistant partnered up to bring a brand new treat to the children. Meanwhile, the Easter Bunny boss has decided to skip Easter altogether this year, which has left the new-found partnership rather worried... As you progress further in the quest, you'll find out additional details to help them get things under control.

The sub-quests composing the quest-line will be split by level ranges as usual, and the requirements and rewards will be balanced accordingly.

﻿﻿Mr Croix Sant's ultimate treat
A buff that will be necessary to be created for the "Mr. Croix Sant" quest chain. It can be produced in either the Provision house or the Rarity provision house. The buff cannot be traded or gifted, and it can be redeemed for its original cost once the event is completely deactivated.

A new list of adventures has been selected for this year's event Seasonal Adventures. The resources and experience rewarded upon completion of these adventures will be doubled. This applies only to resources and refillers and XP obtained, not to the buffs or buildings.

The list of seasonal adventures for Easter 2020 is:

Buccaneer Roundup

Raiding the Raiders

Tomb Raiders

Whirlwind

Horseback

Gunpowder

Victor the Vicious

Secluded Experiments

The Heroic Little Tailor

Aladdin And The Oil Lamp

The Sleeping Volcano

Tropical Sun

Dark Priests

Pirate Life

Where Do Easter Eggs Come From?*

Lakeside Treasure

Split City in Summer

Split City in Fall

The Black Knights

Roaring Bull

Surprise Attack

Ali Baba and the Young Woodcutter

El Chupacabra

Unknown Regions

People of the Mountains

Ventures now also contain Stripy Eggs in the Loot

*Note: the Scenario "Where Do Easter Eggs Come From?" does not reward Stripy Eggs, but is affected by the Seasonal Adventure bonuses. This will be available from the shop for event currency only; a great way to spend any leftovers you have!

The Party Crashers represent the daily military objective of the Easter Event. Their camp, located on the "Event Island" in the centre of the map, is connected to the main island by a bridge. This bridge, as well as the "Event Island", can only be accessed by your generals. It cannot be built upon (buildings, decorations or roads) and collectables will not spawn on it. You can defeat the dastardly Party Crashers with your very own generals, or by asking your friends for help to bribe them off your island if your military might is predisposed.

The two ways of defeating The Party Crashers

Take Up Arms
If you're into military campaigns, you can simply send your generals to confront the Party Crashers with a show of force. Initiate the attack to the Party Crashers' camp located in the centre of the map; your general will cross the bridge over the lake and will introduce the crashers' to the pointy ends of their weapons.

Talk It Out
If your generals are busy with more important matters, why not go for a diplomatic victory? Ask your friends to create buffs in any of their provision houses to help you with the Party Crashers. The buffs themselves will not change any units in the camp, but it will cause the "Peace" quest to progress to the competition. It is important to note as well that this will only happen if the quest is active, so using a buff on a friend's island whose Party crashers camp has already been destroyed, will be wasted. The production time in the Rarity Provision Houses should match the production time of a Provision House with a Level 5 upgrade. Also in both provision houses, the production cost will be identical.

When using buffs on a friend's island to clear the Party Crashers' camp, a new interface will appear, allowing you to apply multiple buffs, similar to defeating a Golem for the Halloween event.

Once the camp is destroyed, smoking ruins will be left in its place and you will receive Stripy Eggs as a reward from the corresponding quest. However, the Party Crashers won't be gone for good; the camp will begin reconstruction for the next 23 hours and they'll be back to cause more mischief! Every passing day, the units inside the camps will become stronger, and require stronger units (or more waves). To complete this part of the event, you will have to surpass 15 encounters! Are you up to the task?...

As in previous year, there will be unique achievements related to the event, which include Stripy Eggs rewards. The achievements are connected to a certain building and depending on the points you gathered, the building will change its design. No achievement will grant 0 points and it will not be required to have 100% of achievements to reach the final level of the achievement building.

The Easter achievements deal with many aspects of the event:

Finding eggs during Explorer searches

Collecting eggs from adventure loot

Completing Easter quests

Helping friends with buffs

Collecting eggs from your home island

This year's achievement building is once again the Settlers University, returning from its debut in 2017! The Settlers University, with the functionality of producing population three times faster than the Village school. It can only be upgraded with achievement points accumulated during the event.

If you played past Easter events, you might remember the Easter Residence or the Spacious Warehouse. These buildings reflected your progress in the event, as they were linked to the Easter achievement points.

It will no longer be required to have 100% of the achievements completed in order to fully upgrade the building. This way you can choose which achievements you would like to complete in order to reach the maximum upgrade level.

Acquiring the building
The building will be available as a quest reward from the quest chain "For my most loyal egg hiders". The building will be available in the Star Menu and can be placed on a free spot. It will be available after the Easter Event, independent of any achievements completed.

Production function:
The building serves as a production building for population, as it produces population three times faster than the Village school.

â†’ Level 1

â†’ Level 2: Easter Event 2020 achievement points needed: 50

â†’ Level 3: Easter Event 2020 achievement points needed: 200

â†’ Level 4: Easter Event 2020 achievement points needed: 375

â†’ Level 5: Easter Event 2020 achievement points needed: 560

â†’ Level 6: Easter Event 2020 achievement points needed: 800

Upgrade conditions:
To upgrade the building's level, Easter 2020 achievement points have to be gathered.
Every time enough points are earned, an icon will indicate that the building can be upgraded.
The upgrade can be done without any additional costs.

Indestructible:
The building is indestructible. When destroyed, it will go back to your Star Menu.
It can be rebuilt and upgraded to the original level again without additional cost.

Easter 2020 Event Shop

In this year's event, we have one new specialist for you to add to your collection! This disguised general will allow you a very outstanding move, which will give you a big advantage against your enemies. Is he one of them?!

Cloaked General

By disguising himself and his garrison to look like bandits, he is able to land sneak attacks and even weaken his foes before the actual fight begins. This makes him formidable to fight against boss units. Recovers twice as quickly, travels 3x as quickly to the AD, has 1000 HP, can carry up to 200 troops. Has Splash Damage and First Strike. Very low Accuracy of only 10% but high damage if he hits. His special Talent is called "Ambush" It reduces Boss and Defense Unit HP by up to 25%. Stacks multiplicative with Overrun. Reduces Boss damage by 25%. He can be purchased for 5795 Stripy Eggs.

﻿﻿Name: Boris General (Limit: 1 / Can only be obtained once overall)Description: A daring rider and astute strategist, he trains your cavalry to use muskets and frontal attacks. Fields 180 units.
Travels twice as quickly to adventures, and recovers twice as quickly from defeat.
First strike, Flanking, Splash Damage and "Astute Strategist".Price: 6695 Stripy Eggs

These Buffs can be found additionally when searching for adventures with Zoe.
Zoe will always find a buff on Adventure Searches, there is no chance to find "Nothing".

Buff

Short

Medium

Long

Very Long

Employee Of The Month

10%

-

5%

1%

Roasted Duck

20%

-

-

-

Piero's Bowl Of Pasta

10%

-

5%

-

Zombie

5%

-

5%

5%

Potion Of Endless Energy

5%

5%

-

1%

The Mother Tree Ritual

-

5%

5%

5%

Damascene Hammer

5%

15%

10%

10%

Whips and Carrots

5%

5%

10%

-

Fermentation Accelerator

5%

15%

10%

10%

Helpful Scarecrow

15%

15%

10%

-

Harvest Ritual

-

5%

10%

10%

Mr Croix Sant

-

5%

5%

5%

Exotic Fruit Basket

-

-

-

1%

Gold Fever

-

10%

5%

5%

Red Flying Settler

-

-

-

5%

Hot Lemon Tea

5%

5%

-

-

Cookies

-

5%

2%

5%

Stadium Snacks

-

1%

2%

5%

Rabbit Luck Charm

-

-

2%

5%

Bag Rainbow Snow

-

-

2%

5%

Elixir

-

1%

1%

2%

Machine Oil

-

1%

1%

2%

Improved Drill Plan

1%

1%

2%

5%

Igor

1%

1%

1%

5%

Chocolate Rabbit

1%

1%

2%

5%

Small Glue

10%

-

-

-

Festival Fireworks

-

1%

1%

1%

Bronze Horseshoes

1%

1%

1%

1%

Rain of Arrows

-

1%

1%

1%

Skin Impr. Floating H. Winterskin long

-

1%

1%

-

Skin Mayorhouse mediterean red long

1%

-

1%

-

Zoe has a chance to find Buffs AND a chance to find an Adventure when searching for treasures.
There is also a chance to find no Buff or no Adventure - in worst case neither is found.

Buff

Short

Medium

Long

Very Long

Prolonged

Artefact

Rarity

NOTHING

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

30%

30%

Employee Of The Month

5%

-

5%

1%

-

10%

10%

Roasted Duck

10%

-

-

-

-

10%

10%

Piero's Bowl Of Pasta

3%

-

5%

-

-

10%

10%

Zombie

2%

-

5%

5%

5%

5%

5%

Potion Of Endless Energy

2%

5%

-

1%

-

The Mother Tree Ritual

-

3%

5%

5%

5%

Damascene Hammer

3%

5%

5%

5%

-

5%

Whips and Carrots

3%

5%

5%

-

-

5%

Fermentation Accelerator

2%

5%

5%

5%

-

5%

Helpful Scarecrow

8%

5%

5%

-

-

5%

Harvest Ritual

-

5%

3%

5%

5%

5%

Mr Croix Sant

-

5%

2%

5%

5%

5%

Exotic Fruit Basket

-

-

-

1%

-

5%

Gold Fever

-

5%

5%

5%

5%

5%

Red Flying Settler

-

-

-

5

5

Hot Lemon Tea

2%

5%

-

-

-

5%

Cookies

-

2%

2%

5%

5%

5%

Stadium Snacks

-

1%

2%

5%

5%

Rabbit Luck Charm

-

-

2%

5%

5%

5%

Bag Rainbow Snow

-

-

2%

5%

5%

1%

Elixir

-

1%

1%

2%

5%

1%

Machine Oil

-

1%

1%

2%

5%

1%

Improved Drill Plan

1%

1%

2%

5%

5%

3%

3%

Igor

1%

1%

1%

2%

5%

2%

2%

Chocolate Rabbit

1%

1%

2%

3%

5%

Small Glue

5%

-

-

-

-

Festival Fireworks

-

1%

1%

1%

5%

2%

Bronze Horseshoes

1%

1%

1%

1%

5%

1%

Rain of Arrows

-

1%

1%

1%

5%

1%

1%

Skin Impr. Floating H. Winterskin long

-

1%

1%

-

-

1%

Skin Mayorhouse mediterean red long

1%

-

1%

-

-

1%

Adventures

Short

Medium

Long

Very Long

Prolonged

Artefact

Rarity

NOTHING

75%

65%

65%

50%

30%

65%

65%

Ali Baba and the Young Woodcutter

-

-

-

-

5%

-

-

Arctic Explosion

-

-

-

1%

5%

-

1%

Bandit Nest

-

-

-

5%

-

1%

1%

Bastille Island

-

-

1%

5%

5%

1%

-

Gunpowder

-

-

1%

5%

5%

1%

1%

Horseback

2%

5%

5%

-

-

2%

-

Lakeside Treasure

-

-

1%

5%

5%

2%

2%

Outlaws

-

-

3%

-

-

2%

2%

Raiding The Raiders

-

-

2%

-

-

2%

2%

Roaring Bull

-

-

-

3%

5%

-

2%

Secluded Experiments

-

-

-

3%

5%

-

2%

Sleeping Volcano

1%

5%

-

2%

-

2%

-

Sleepy Reef

2%

5%

-

2%

-

2%

-

Sons Of The Veld

-

-

2%

-

-

2%

2%

Stealing From The Rich

2%

5%

2%

-

-

1%

-

Suprise Attack

-

-

3%

-

5%

2%

2%

The Black Knights

-

-

-

5%

5%

-

2%

The Buccaneer Roundup

2%

2%

4%

-

-

2%

-

The Dark Brotherhood

-

-

-

5%

5%

-

2%

The Dark Priests

2%

2%

1%

-

-

2

1

The Island Of The Pirates

2%

2%

1%

-

-

-

-

The Nords

-

-

2%

-

3%

2%

2%

The Lost Skull

2%

1%

-

2%

-

1%

-

The Siege

2%

2%

-

-

-

2%

-

The Valiant Little Tailor

-

-

-

3%

5%

-

2%

The Whirlwind

-

-

-

1%

3%

-

1%

Tomb Raiders

-

-

-

-

3%

1%

1%

Traitors

2%

2%

2%

1%

-

-

1%

Tropical Sun

2%

2%

1%

-

-

1%

-

Victor The Vicious

-

-

-

1%

-

1%

1%

Wild Mary

-

-

1%

-

-

1%

1%

Witch Of The Swamp

2%

-

1%

-

-

-

1%

Twins

1%

1%

-

-

-

-

-

The Grain Conflict

1%

1%

1%

-

-

1%

-

Heart Of The Wood

-

-

1%

-

2%

1%

1%

Riches Of The Mountain

-

-

-

1%

2%

-

1%

Storm Recovery

-

-

-

-

2%

-

1%

﻿﻿Name: Major General (Limit: 1*)Description: The Major General has seen many battles and is able to command armies of overwhelming size.
Travels twice as quickly to adventures, and recovers twice as quickly from defeat. Fields 270 units.Price: 5795 Stripy Eggs

﻿﻿Name: Master of Defense (Limit: 1*)Description: Special General. Recovers and travels to an adventure island twice as fast as a Tavern General. He deals a decent amount of damage.
He has a very high amount of Hit Points and leads up to 200 units. Splash damage, attacks the weakest target first.Price: 3450 Stripy Eggs

﻿﻿Name: Veteran General (Limit: 1*)Description: A Special attack General. Recovers and travels to an adventure island twice as fast as a Tavern General.
Leads up to 250 units.Price: 3280 Stripy Eggs

Titanium Hen

One morning a farm Settler knocked himself unconscious while trying to crack open the eggshell of an unusually heavy and hard egg, thinking his head would be tougher.
At that moment he understood why his favorite hen was so heavy.
Luckily his family and friends kept him from taking a look inside the hen to discover its secrets.
Since this day the hen got built its very own luxury nest and continues to lay Titanium Ore Eggs.

﻿﻿Name: Noble Hunter Tribute (Limit: 1)Type: Tribute (Not giftable, not tradable)Description: This building honours the vocation of all your hunters, increasing their efficiency at gathering meat, for free: producing 3 Meat every 6 minutes.Price: 2945 Stripy Eggs This building can be brought into play on a different way. Let yourself be surprised!

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﻿﻿Name: The Spring Park (Limit: 2)Type: Building (Not giftable, not tradable)Description: Culture building with four buffs.Price: 2945 Stripy Eggs

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The Spring Park

The Spring Park is a culture building that applies zone-wide buffs at the expense of resources. To use the building, you have to click a button in its UI, that will prompt a zone-wide buff on your island. Very much in line with this event's theme, the Spring Park produces spring themed buffs: Walpurgis Night, Spring Festival, Spring Cleaning and the Children's Easter Novels.

Owning multiples of the same building will not offer separate functionalities or cooldowns. Instead, every duplicate increases the cooldown speed by 100%. For example, a buff that will usually trigger a 1-hour cooldown will only trigger a 20-minute cooldown if you own 3 buildings (60min / 300%).

Similar to the way the Footie Pitch works, the Spring Park produces zone-wide buffs with various functionalities:

Buff name

Description

Cost

Cooldown

Icon

Walpurgis Night

During this festival, witches perform rituals that will help them find ingredients for spells and potions.

﻿﻿Name: Wondrous Residence (Limit: 2 3*)Type: Building (Not giftable, not tradable)Description: An impressively tall building to house vast amounts of Settlers in a small area. Can be upgraded multiple times.Price: 9995 Stripy Eggs / 14995 Gems"Details"

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The Wonderous Residence

This marvel of engineering is the result of the insane-ingenuity of our residential Mad Scientist! Able to house an impressive amount of Settlers in such a small building footprint (2x2), the Wonderous Residence has to be one of the most efficient population buildings to date. Although it is relatively expensive to upgrade, the returns more than justify the means if you're looking to squeeze every last drop of space on your home-island:

The Mad Scientist visited Sonya holding crumpled sheets of paper in his hands with detailed scribbles on them looking like a construction plan.

Increases the population limit.

+140 Population from start

Upgrades will increase the population up to 650!

Requires only 2x2 squares of space!

Needs 9995 Eggs to be purchased

Limit: 2 times for eggs each event, 10 times for 14995 gems in architect

Level

Costs

Population

Construction Time

1

-

140

5 Minutes

2

Coin 350Marble 300

+30 (170)

10 Minutes

3

Coin 900Hardwood Planks 1000

+30 (200)

1 Hour

4

Coin 1100Granite 1000

+35 (235)

3 Hours

5

Coin 1500Exotic wood Planks 1000

+35 (270)

6 Hours

6

Grout 1500Granite 2500

+40 (310)

12 Hours

7

Coin 4000Mahogany Planks 5000

+40 (350)

1 Day

8

Grout 1000Token 75

+50 (400)

2 Days

9

Coin 5000Granite 7500

+50 (450)

3 Days

10

Grout 5000Granite 12500

+50 (500)

4 Days

11

Magic Beanstalks 10000Granite 12500

+50 (550)

7 Days

12

Grout 10000Token 100

+100 (650)

7 Days

﻿﻿Name: Improved Mill (Limit: 3*)Type: Building (Not giftable, tradable)Description: A building that produces flour three times as fast as a regular mill.Price: 625 Stripy Eggs

*: Important information about the item limits:
Limited to the given amount per player for this year's event. If you already own the item (regardless of the amount) from a previous event, you can obtain the listed amount of the item again this year.

This Year Easter will present a Calendar in which you should open the doors daily!

To access the Calendar, just click on the icon next to your avatar.

2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOORS

There is a total of 21 doors. You can open one door each day. Opening missed doors for gems will cost 100 gems for normal doors and 300 gems for special doors.

Don't forget to open the doors daily and also remind your friends to do so!

﻿﻿Type: Regular doorAmount: 15Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 100 gems afterwardsRequirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or notRewards: Provides basic rewards (such as resources), sometimes chosen randomly

﻿﻿Type: Special doorAmount: 6Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 300 gems afterwards.Requirement: All previous doors need to be openRewards: Most special doors offer a choice between several rewards when opened

We previously introduced the level cap raise to 80 which was also the perfect time to increase the upgrade level of the buildings.
Several buildings already got their Level 7 upgrade, but some are still missing and we introduce a batch of upgrades with this version. Level 7 Upgrades require the resources Oil and/or Advanced Tools. You can obtain Oil if you combine Wheat, Stone, Herbs and Oilseeds in the Oil Mill. Oilseeds can be obtained from Adventures. Below you can find the table of buildings that will be upgradeable with this version.

Upgradable to Level 7

Noble Residence

Storage Tower

Village School

Provision House

Friary

Don't worry if you don't see your favourite building listed above; more buildings will receive their own Level 7 Upgrade in future deployments!

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE START OF THE REMOVAL PHASE?
(20th 21st of April, ~08:00 UTC)

Easter quests will be deactivated, except Easter guild quests. As soon as a new Guild Quest is received (at the normal time), no new event guild quests will be received. Regular guild quests will reappear instead.

Achievements will no longer be obtainable, and the final score of the obtained Easter 2020 achievements will be the one that determines the level of the event building.

The achievement category will disappear for players who didn't gain achievement points during the event.

The first spawn of collectables after the Removal phase won't provide Stripy Eggs anymore.

Explorers won't find Stripy Eggs anymore:
In very rare cases, when returning shortly after Removal phase, Stripy Eggs will still be found.

Adventure and Expedition loot won't include Stripy Eggs anymore if completed during Removal phase, regardless of when they were started.

The Easter design will be removed from the loading screen.

The Event window will be deactivated.

The Event shop will still be available.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE EVENT DEACTIVATION?
(27th of April, ~08:00 UTC)